Man Who Ruined Football: A Novel - Hardcover

Brooks, Elston

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689120710 ISBN 13: 9780689120718

Publisher: Atheneum, 1989

Synopsis

Vic Waller, a middle-aged insurance man, begins a second career with the Dallas cowboys as a placekicker who never misses

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A 52-year-old walk-on placekicker who never misses is the premise of this slight tale. In 1982, Vic Waller, an insurance man from Fort Worth, walks into the office of the Dallas Cowboys' Tom Landry and asks for a try-out. After Waller nails a 109 -yard field goal, the Cowboy brain trust signs him on the spot. Soon Waller is a national sensation--he appears on TV and on the covers of Sports Illustrated and People magazine; he falls in love with a young woman named Ellen Wade. But this astounding success has serious implications for the game (and the business) of professional football. Because the Cowboys can score on every possession, they never lose. With chance and the human factor out of the game, attendance and TV ratings plunge. The Cowboys of course reach the Super Bowl but, once there, experience a significant set-back. Brooks, a Texas columnist and author ( Column Write! ), offers no surprise, nor earned suspense. What the readers expect is exactly what they get, nothing less, and nothing more.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Atheneum
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0689120710
• ISBN 13: 9780689120718
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 166